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In The Dark

S1 E6: Stranger Danger

In The Dark

The New Yorker

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.728.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In the 1970s and early '80s, missing children weren't considered a policing priority. You couldn't even enter missing child information into the FBI's national crime database. But that changed quickly. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:35.3

I love, like enjoying a latte on the bus with some music or on a walk with a friend. My

0:42.7

only resolution is to enjoy more of what I love, like switching up my usual with oat,

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0:56.3

charge. Whilst stocks last, subject to availability. Previously on In the Dark.

1:01.5

We shall someone took Jacob, someone took Jacob. There was a man with a gun and he took

1:07.9

Jacob. Helicopters scanned a 30 square mile area while searchers below comb the area on foot

1:12.9

without finding a trace. I wanted everybody in the world looking for Jacob. It was like

1:18.3

my son. You know, we're talking getting him home. We did what we had to, what we felt

1:24.6

we had to. Lots of kids that are taken are not taken by some caring person and taken

1:29.7

to Disneyland. They're taken by someone who is into sexually assaulting children and

1:36.1

if you're lucky, you'll find a body in a field. We pull out all the stocks. Turn them

1:42.9

upside down. Sometimes you just can't get it.

1:46.2

A few weeks after Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped, Jacob's mom Patty started getting letters from

1:59.6

all over the country, letters from kids. Kids who had heard about Jacob and wanted to tell

2:05.3

Jacob's mom their own stories of violence and abuse. This happened to me or my sister

2:10.6

ran away and this happened and this and it was like this growing. It's like a snowball

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